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Airframe Family:	Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
Latest Model:	C-47H
Last Military Serial:	017 {1} NASA
Construction Number:	12287
Last Civil Registration:	XA-ROM
Compressed ID:	Douglas C-47H sn 017 NASA cn 12287...
Latest Owner or Location:	Jorge Jimenez Cantu National Airport, Atizapan de Zaragoza, Mexico, Fuentes San Jose, Ciudad de Mexico (Mexico City), State of Mexico

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Dates		Event
		Constructed as a C-47A-5-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
Circa 1942		Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-92482.
		Redesignated as R4D-5.
13 January 1944		Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 17136.
		Redesignated as C-47H.
		Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 17136.
		Taken on Strength/Charge with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with s/n 017 {1}. Assigned to NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, CA.
2 May 1956		Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Cent
2 May 1956		Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Cent
23 June 1969		To NASA with new c/r N817NA.
6 October 1980		Photographer: Keith Heywood Notes: Lancaster Fox Field
5 June 1989		Civil registration, N817NA, cancelled.
		To unknown owner with c/r XA-ROM.
		To Jorge Jimenez Cantu National Airport, Atizapan de Zaragoza, Mexico, Fuentes San Jose, Ciudad de Mexico (Mexico City), State of Mexico. View the Location Dossier
By 16 May 2016		Photographer: Marcos Nava ZarazAAa Notes: Now resting near Mexico City, out of Atizapan Airport (MMJC / JJC)
		Photographer: Unknown

		This airframe dossier is based on unreviewed imported data. If you can verify the documented history or add to it with additional text and/or photos please feel free to do so by using the upload tool and the history editor.

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United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

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